IPython console not showing initial banner in Spyder 6

[beew]

Ipython console is not displaying initial banners like version of python and version of Ipython etc. (the box in Preference > Ipython console > display initial banner is checked)

The banner is displayed briefly when the "Help Spyder" pop up window is a white square.

Once the Help Spyder window is rendered the initial banner in Ipython console disappears.

The window layout in the pictures is Rstudio layout, but choosing default shows the same problem.

## Versions
* Spyder version: 6.0.0
* Python version: 3.10.9
* PyQt version: 5.15.9
* Operating System name/version: Ubuntu 22.04

### Dependencies

Mandatory:

aiohttp >=3.9.3 : 3.10.5 (OK) asyncssh >=2.14.0,<3.0.0 : 2.17.0 (OK) atomicwrites >=1.2.0 : 1.4.1 (OK) chardet >=2.0.0 : 5.1.0 (OK) cloudpickle >=0.5.0 : 2.2.1 (OK) cookiecutter >=1.6.0 : 2.1.1 (OK) diff_match_patch >=20181111 : 20200713 (OK) github >=2.3.0 : 2.4.0 (OK) importlib_metadata >=4.6.0 : 6.8.0 (OK) intervaltree >=3.0.2 : 3.1.0 (OK) IPython >=8.13.0,<9.0.0,!=8.17.1 : 8.13.1 (OK) jedi >=0.17.2,<0.20.0 : 0.18.2 (OK) jellyfish >=0.7 : 0.9.0 (OK) jsonschema >=3.2.0 : 4.17.3 (OK) keyring >=17.0.0 : 23.13.1 (OK) nbconvert >=4.0 : 7.2.9 (OK) numpydoc >=0.6.0 : 1.5.0 (OK) parso >=0.7.0,<0.9.0 : 0.8.3 (OK) pexpect >=4.4.0 : 4.8.0 (OK) pickleshare >=0.4 : 0.7.5 (OK) psutil >=5.3 : 5.9.4 (OK) pygments >=2.0 : 2.14.0 (OK) pylint >=3.1,<4 : 3.1.0 (OK) pylint_venv >=3.0.2 : 3.0.2 (OK) pyls_spyder >=0.4.0 : 0.4.0 (OK) pylsp >=1.12.0,<1.13.0 : 1.12.0 (OK) pylsp_black >=2.0.0,<3.0.0 : 2.0.0 (OK) pyuca >=1.2 : 1.2 (OK) qdarkstyle >=3.2.0,<3.3.0 : 3.2 (OK) qstylizer >=0.2.2 : 0.2.2 (OK) qtawesome >=1.3.1,<1.4.0 : 1.3.1 (OK) qtconsole >=5.6.0,<5.7.0 : 5.6.0 (OK) qtpy >=2.4.0 : 2.4.1 (OK) rtree >=0.9.7 : 1.0.1 (OK) setuptools >=49.6.0 : 65.5.0 (OK) sphinx >=0.6.6 : 6.1.3 (OK) spyder_kernels >=3.0.0,<3.1.0 : 3.0.0 (OK) superqt >=0.6.2,<1.0.0 : 0.6.7 (OK) textdistance >=4.2.0 : 4.5.0 (OK) three_merge >=0.1.1 : 0.1.1 (OK) watchdog >=0.10.3 : 2.2.1 (OK) xdg >=0.26 : 0.28 (OK) yarl >=1.9.4 : 1.9.7 (OK) zmq >=24.0.0 : 24.0.1 (OK)

Optional:

cython >=0.21 : 0.29.28 (OK) matplotlib >=3.0.0 : 3.7.1 (OK) numpy >=1.7 : 1.23.5 (OK) pandas >=1.1.1 : 2.1.3 (OK) scipy >=0.17.0 : 1.10.1 (OK) sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.13.0 (OK)

[ccordoba12]

Hey @beew, thanks for opening this issue. I have a quick question for you: is the Help Spyder window shown for you at every startup?

[beew]

@ccordoba12

Yes, it shows everytime. It starts at a white square then it renders just like in the screenshots.

[ccordoba12]

Ok, that was an oversight on our side and it'll be also fixed in 6.0.1

[beew]

Hi, actually it is not fixed in 6.0.1

[ccordoba12]

We tested the solution I proposed for this thoroughly and now we can't reproduce your problem, sorry.

Please check that you correctly installed 6.0.1 given that you're using a custom installation method.

[beew]

@ccordoba12

Actually, the "help spyder" box is not showing any more. The iPython banner shows in start up then gone. But otherwise everything is working and there is no error message when start spyder in the terminal.

[ccordoba12]

Actually, the "help spyder" box is not showing any more.

That shows that there's something fishy with your installation, so it's up to you to fix it (sorry but we don't support custom installations, only Anaconda and our own installers).

[beew]

@ccordoba12

Ok it looks like my configuration is corrupt. If I rename .config/spyder-py3 and start spyder the Ipython banners show (but the "Help spyder" box doesn't show, which is not a big deal. I know where to make a donation.)

Question, I want to use the new config but keep my open tabs, which files should I copy over? pub_history.sqlite and history.py don't seem to be the ones.

Thanks.

[beew]

@ccordoba12

So I have figured out. Turns out if you have ~ 10 tabs open the Ipython banners disappear. If it is less then they show up.

Weird. This is not the behavour of Spyder 5x since I always had that many tabs

However, if I test with a new spyder-py3 config the "help spyder" splash screen doesn't show up, instead I have the "welcome to spyder, take a tour" splash just like in spyder5.x and it only shows the first time you use spyder (after switching to a new config) That is actually not bad. Is it intended?

[ccordoba12]

So I have figured out. Turns out if you have ~ 10 tabs open the Ipython banners disappear. If it is less then they show up.

You're right, I was able to reproduce this problem again like that. Could you open a new issue about it? We can't reopen this one because it's already referenced in our changelog.

Weird. This is not the behavour of Spyder 5x since I always had that many tabs

We changed the mechanism to render the banner for Spyder 6.

[ccordoba12]

However, if I test with a new spyder-py3 config the "help spyder" splash screen doesn't show up, instead I have the "welcome to spyder, take a tour" splash just like in spyder5.x and it only shows the first time you use spyder (after switching to a new config) That is actually not bad. Is it intended?

Yes, it is. The Help Spyder message was meant to be shown only the 5th and 25th times Spyder starts (to not annoy users). Besides that, we'll show a blue/red heart in the status bar twice per month that will show the message again when clicked. We think that's a non-intrusive way to remind users for their support.